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This is going to be a simple post but I have been thinking about how cool it would be to be able to produce acid, heroin, pcp, and other narcotics. This would add more drug diversity and dynamic to rp situations rather then just meth, cocaine, and weed. This would not really be a big change just a rework of an already present feature.Â

I’ve been thinking there’s multiple variants of coke and weed but no meth so I was thinking a couple things you could do first I was thinking you could add another RV a nicer more expensive one maybe have them as Blue Meth and White Meth making one worth more or to expand the business side and add a better ephedrine that businesses can sell Alright! Thank you for hearing my idea!Â

So today there was a protest in Paleto Bay for the legalization of weed/serpickle berry joints in that area. It was organised by Bake and Penny leapt at the opportunity to join - given she was planning to do the same! The mission of the protest was to raise awareness and start a discussion. It was peaceful and offered everyone a great experience - special mention to the Red Sickle reporters who came down to cover the news story. This "plot" comes after a few weeks of the addiction features being added and many of us suddenly being confronted with a new and alarming reaction to the pills many rely on to regain HP.  It also confirmed that the pills are actually opiates and that is why they are highly addictive. This mirrors an existing real world issue with opiate medication, and i think is a clever addition to Badlands to create great RP situations. Penny for eg is allergic to opiates. However... it does leave a rather juicy catch 22. Because there are only three things that improve your HP in this city... And the laws set by the Govt mean that it is illegal to produce, have or distribute one of them (serpickle berry), Pills can give you VERY serious addiction issues even after taking just ONE, and visiting the hospital is expensive and time consuming (even the police force admit its a pain). This policy from the government doesnt really stand well when you look at it like that. A government encouraging its citizens to use substances it knows are addictive and can cause blackouts...!? which they then need to visit the EMS to cure themselves of... which is costing the government money... because they pay wages to EMS... So, back to the protest - the main objective put forward by Bake was to make Serpickle Berry Joints legal in Paleto. You cant sell them to locals there anyway, you can only use them medicinally yourself. It does seem like the perfect location for a hippy community to grow and seems easy enough as a suggestion. This is what I would term a State Government approach - LSPD update their training and recognise that citizens within the area of Paleto are legally permitted to use or obtain serpickle berry buds or joints. So what do you all think of that idea? Another approach mentioned at the protest, by the media, was the legal distribution of serpickle berry joints by EMS via prescription. This idea seemed good but I dont really know much of the details of it. Can anyone add? Based on what i gather, it may be difficult to create prescriptions that stay with the joints... but i dunno. Lastly, Penny is quite keen to use her laboratory experience for good and I wonder if this might be an opportunity to have some really great RP in the hospital lab. If the government were in the process of looking for a new drug altogether... perhaps one that doesnt have addictive properties, doesnt produce hallucinations or vision distortion and does provide citizens with HP... then perhaps some research could be done on the Serpickle Berry to see what compounds could be extracted to create an over the counter alternative to joints? At the protest, Penny called for government 'funded' research into serpickle berries to find legal medication alternatives - and really that means I will RP it out (no wages needed, im just having fun) and Penny can either succeed with her research or fail to develop the new drugs - depending on whether the (federal) government is able to or wants to add a new drug to the city. But again... what say you all? Lets get the discussion going and hopefully reach a clear common goal to put forward to the federal government for review. The point of this is to come up with new ideas, pick holes in the ones put forward and generally find the one we think might work best for our community. I dont want to bug the admins with 10 tickets when we can just put forward one.

I've seen a few discussions regarding drugs and the way the job is dealt with in various manners, specifically that selling drugs is too easy as you can rather easily avoid the cops. An idea I got would be to add batch sales of drugs. How it would work is essentially allowing you to sell a larger amount/all of your personal and/or vehicle inventory at once. The client then would not be single individuals, but rather a gang or alike. Should you succeed, you will sell all of your stock for maximum profit (perhaps even a bit higher), but there is of course a catch. There a few ways the deal can go down. 1. It's a smooth transaction. This is the most positive outcome where the player sells all of their inventory and gets paid in full without repercussions. (No police alert) 2. The gang decides to keep the drugs AND the money for themselves and simply waste the player. This will create a gun fight in which the gang (5-10 AI) will start to attack the player. Should the player(s) manage to take down the gang members, they can steal the money from the gang HQ AND keep their inventory. The police will of course be alerted about the ensuing gun fire though, so the player(s) better be quick about it or risk getting taken caught. (30 second timer until police is alerted from that the gun fire ensues.) 3. Sting operation. It was a setup and now the cops have taken your inventory and there is no money. In this scenario the player(s) can choose to either comply with the officers or fight their way out by gunning down the undercover police AI and attempt to steal back their inventory which has now been impounded. (Police is silently alerted as soon as the players arrive and as such have 1.5 to 2.5 minutes to respond to the scene) All scenarios have a 1-2 minute waiting time where the player must remain in the area until the transaction is complete and a random scenario is chosen. Should be police be in the area and for example see the vehicle they may of course search it as well as the property, making this transaction compared to selling to individuals slightly riskier but with a guaranteed maximum payout as well as one swoop transaction instead of running around in broad daylight.  The statistics of each encounter happening I'll leave to someone better at balancing.  The idea is essentially to allow for more group oriented game play so that player gangs/groups of criminals can do something together rather than always playing lone wolf.   Let me know what you think and if there's something I haven't thought about!

Since Los Santos is based on LA why aren't there any avenues for legal cannabis jobs in the city? In real life LA cannabis is 100% legalized and there are licensed growers and dispensaries. My idea would be to add cannabis licenses to the department of licensing so people could legally grow and posses cannabis. This ideally would also allow license holders to also wholesale their cannabis at the several dispensaries already in Los Santos. For balance the license could be in the range of 200k and wholesaling would obviously yield less money per unit of cannabis than street dealing (which should remain illegal). Also, if license holders are found illegally selling their cannabis to locals they should lose their cannabis license and fine them or whatever you think is balanced.

How about if when you collect marijuana or ephedrine , there would be 1/100 chance to get that plants seed which you could plant anywhere where you want, and for example grow 100 units in 2 hrs ? And anyone else could harvest it as well and ofc cops could destroy itÂ

Since I have 250+ hrs on badlands i had some time to think about some things i would like to see in the server. These are just my ideas that came in my mind at some point while playing. As well as i'm gonna try to be as short as possible to waste your time as less as possible. So, Death Should be more scary. If you are down you have given some time (10 or 20 min for example) to wait for ems while you're bleeding out. After that - that's it. You're done. Respawn as a new player. Maybe even some cool down time (like 1 day for example) or something like that. It sounds really rough , but isn't death like that ? For even more RP, if you are down by melee weapon timer is 20 min, if from a gun - 10 min. You know , cause you bleed out faster. (Idk if game mechanics allow something like this) Drug selling In real life , if you buy more at once , price per one unit is lower. So, if you are selling drugs (weed for example) it would be cool if there would be options like ''sell 1 for 120'' and ''sell 10 for 1k (100 per unit)'' Other persons trunk access It shouldn't be with permission unless vehicle is locked. Because in real life if car is unlocked , you can take whatever you want , right ? Crime records (I think this could be pretty important and easy to achieve) Discord text channel (everyone can see it but only police can post in it). And this is how it could work. One officer (probably one who's highest rank) is the controller of that channel. Creates new message like: Badlands Crime Record: Person X - Crime 1 (date) (Arrest by officer A) Then, when Officer B arrests Person Y , he writes a message in that channel in same way as previous one. Person in charge reads that message , updates crime record and deletes Officer's B message. And maybe adds like ''Last updated (date)''. So the crime record is easy to read. And crimes would delete after some time (1 week maybe). And if crime record stacks up , dispatch (if there is one) could provide with information about crime record.   So, again, these are just some random ideas that came up in my mind. I'm not asking you guys to like these ideas or get to work right away. That's just my opinion and i thought it would be cool to see some of this in server. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Mr. Portwood.

Simple and I am sure due to my RP lately this is no surprise and some might roll their eyes at me...... but can we get Cocaine as a new drug to use.... Uhm I mean to sell yes that is it sell?Â